We document that the deregulation of bank branching restrictions in the United States triggered a reallocation across … suggest that improving bank access to branching affects the sectoral specialization (or diversification) of output, in a …

predict the development of bank profitability due to demographic shifts up to 2025. One of the main findings is that the …

-wide institutional quality (corruption) on various bank activities: (i) the ratio of nonperforming loans to total loans; (ii) the capital … quality can increase the risk of bank defaults when bank managers in corrupt nations view the probability of apprehension as … interest rate spreads. While membership in the European Union has a stabilizing effect, however, the central-bank autonomy does …

actual observation of tail risk events. Interestingly, we find that estimated tail risk exposures for U.S. Bank Holding …

. Procyclicality in bank lending may be magnified when banks' loan loss provisioning is backward looking given the increase in loan …

Using and international sample of commercial banks over the period 1996-2006, our study analyzes if bank's specific … as both monitor and advisor. Results show that there is no optimal board for every bank but it depends on several … variables such as the bank's size, the ownership concentration, the growth opportunities and the monitoring power of the country …